This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really

Henrik Verdeline has spent the past fifteen years helping entrepreneurs to build major brands such as Barkbox through Startup Studio Prehyte. Now, through his new New York -based project, he is betting that artificial intelligence can help him expand the scope of this process from “dozens” of emerging companies annually to “hundreds of thousands” of ambitious business owners.

Timing definitely feels right. The mass layoffs have left through a variety of industries many workers to reconsider their professional paths, while artificial intelligence tools have significantly reduced the construction barrier and digital services barrier. In the heart of the Venn scheme, this is the latest project for Werdeelin, with its promise to help “daily entrepreneurs to create artificial intelligence companies million dollars” without the need for technical skills.

Werdeelin’s journey from Prehyte to Audos reflects the broader shift in entrepreneurship now. In Prehype, the focus on working with technology founders to build traditional startups, a type that may raise millions and aims to a billion dollar output.

Now, Techcrunch tells, “What we are trying to do is take all this knowledge, and all the methodology that we created over the years of building all these large companies, and trying to put it on democracy.”

The idea is that “daily entrepreneurs” may feel that the shift is in full swing, but they may not be keen to try the so -called artificial intelligence agents or know how to reach customers. Audos is more happy than happy with their help, providing these individuals with AI tools to build advanced products using a natural language, and take advantage of social media algorithms to find their specialized customers.

“Facebook and many of these platforms, they are just incredible algorithms, and they are incredible to discover them [how to reach your customer] In fact, Audos says this system to test whether the idea of ​​the founder’s work has the costs of acquiring sustainable customers in reality.

The approach appears to be working. Audos has helped launch the “low hundreds” of companies since its experimental launch, where its customers discovered the platform through Instagram ads that ask “Have you ever thought about starting something, but you don’t know where to go?” Among them, says Wrielene, a car mechanic who wants to help people assess reform quotes, the individual who sells “after logistical death”, the hypothesis coaches in the virtual golf, and artificial intelligence nutritionists. In reference to diving to a billion dollar company, or the so -called rhinoceros, these individual and second difference are called “Donkeycorns”.

All of them are all through the process itself: they click on the Audos Declaration, the AI ​​agent launched a conversation to find out the problems these individuals want to address and who want to serve them, and when he was satisfied with the answers, Audos got potential customers as soon as possible.

For returns, Audos works on a model that is mainly different than traditional urgent or investment capital. Instead of taking the shares, the company takes a share of 15 % revenue from companies that help to launch them. On the other hand, the founders get up to $ 25,000 of financing, access to the business development tools, and assist in distribution (again, primarily by announcing paid social media).

“We do not take any shares in their business,” says Verdeline. There is not much point. “We do not think that these companies may be sold,” he says. “What we really inspire is mother and pop stores that are the backbone of our society.”

The revenue share continues indefinitely, similar to the arterial system charged by the Apple App Store. For the founders, this means giving up a large part of their revenues forever – a 15 % reduction can cost entrepreneurs hundreds of thousands of dollars over time. Some will undoubtedly see that the comparison is worthy of attention; Others may wonder whether the long -term costs justify the benefits.

Audos’s value proposal also raises other questions, given the speed of the scene. While Werdelin emphasizes the founders to build relationships with clients, it is not clear how much this work that artificial intelligence agents can deal with already. There is also the issue of differentiation. Werdelin also recognizes, “The world is full of these tools” and they are improving quickly. What happens when project owners can access similar AI capabilities without paying a permanent revenue tax?

VCS from Audos does not seem concern about those scenarios. True Ventures led the Audos tour of $ 11.5 million, with partner Tony Conrad explained the appeal in the upcoming call of this week. In addition to confidence in Werdeelin and Thorne, Conrad says, “I think there are many and many people” who may pass passionately the opportunity to work with a platform like Audos.

Konrad directs similarities to the Instagram exit, which is worth one billion dollars with only 13 employees, indicating that artificial intelligence can enable more financial leverage, even if Audos – which itself is employed in itself only five people – is not chasing alone. “What we follow here is millions of people who can create companies with a million dollars or half a million dollars from real companies and change life.”

“What we are trying to do is know how to form a million companies that make a million dollars [in annual revenue]. This is a trillion dollars of rotation. “

In the middle of 2025, it does not look crazy. Expanding the benefits of entrepreneurship to people who have not been able to reach capital or technical skills, starting from traditional currencies, as traditional work begins to feel less and less stable.

“We think there should be someone who comes out and really helps these younger business pioneers who build something that is unable to adventure,” says Verdelin. “We think the world is better with more entrepreneurship.”

Other investors of Audos Venture Venture and Bungalow Capital include, along with many prominent owners-Nickels Zindsum and Mario Sheloser among them.

In the picture above, from left to right, Audos participated in Nicholas Thorne and Henrik Verdin.